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		<title>CD Review: I Love Jesus, But I Drink A Little, Gladys Hardy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most people who have heard of the now relatively eminent Gladys Hardy because of her phone call to Ellen DeGeneres and the hilarity that ensued from Ellen&#8217;s subsequent call back, I love the idea of Gladys Hardy: the sweet, little 88-year old woman from Austin, Texas. I can picture her in a rocking chair, holding an old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xbox and Hookers: The Coolest Kid In America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of young Ralph Hardy just might be the greatest story ever. 13-year old Ralph Hardy is without a doubt the coolest kid at his school and maybe even the coolest kid in America.
The Texas teenager took it upon himself to order an extra credit card from his dad&#8217;s existing credit card account, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115710</link>
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		<title>Protest Ohio Outrage: Father Jailed Because His Daughter Didn&#8217;t Get Her GED!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I shared this outrageous story with you&#8211;Father Jailed Because His Adult Daughter Fails to Get Her GED. In the case, father Brian Gegner was ordered to see to it that his daughter gets her GED, but she has not done so, in part because she struggles with math. The daughter&#8217;s problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State&#8217;s top lawman takes a &#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with Texas&#8221; approach to fighting identity theft</title>
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(Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot)
Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, is teaching the business world not to mess with the personal information of Texans.
Using a series of laws that he wrote an essay on, AG Abbot has taken legal action against Radio Shack, CVS Pharmacy and CNG Financial Corporation doing business as as Check and Go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115688</link>
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		<title>Bishop Arrested In the Philippines For Insulting the Ladies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Archbishop Cruz, an outspoken critic of those who exploit the poor and of those guilty of corruption, has himself been arrested for libel because of an article he wrote four years ago.
The Bishop claimed that women working for PAGCOR (Philippine Gaming Commission) were told to go to a birthday party for the first Gentleman, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115666</link>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s No-Win Win In West Virginia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mountain State proved insurmountable to Barack Obama, who conceded the contest to Hillary Clinton before the first vote was even cast. Unlike last week’s nail-biter in IN, within a nanosecond of polls closing at 7:30 p.m. ET, the networks put the check mark next to Hillary’s name (65 percent to Obama’s 28 percent). 
Hillary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115667</link>
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		<title>The Food Crisis, Bush and The Media Spin Against India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had it up to here with the MSM, especially the NYTimes and it&#8217;s clone, the International Herald Tribune. Today&#8217;s IHT has an article on how reporters in India were aghast that Bush &#8220;Blamed&#8221; the rice shortage on Indians eating too much.
But of course, he never said such a thing, and shame to the IHT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115664</link>
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		<title>Muslims of Jaipur Need To Stand Up And Be Counted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Jaipur bomb blast is yet another challenge to the Muslims as a community. If over 100 persons have died in the serial blast, the blood of the victims is on the Muslim community from within whom the LeTs or HUJIs have found sustenance.
If genuine Muslims are embarrassed that the world is associating the word  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115665</link>
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		<title>DVD/CD Review: Steve Miller Band Live From Chicago</title>
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Now this is a musician with a resume. In the 40 years he has been recording, over 25 million albums have been sold, he has been a constant feature on the Billboard 200, and has scored a couple aces.
Surprisingly though, prior to this boxed set he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115663</link>
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		<title>Couple Makes a Plea For Return of Child’s Ashes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t imagine anyone wanting to take the ashes of an infant child but apparently this is what someone actually did. A family from Ajax Ontario came home only to find their home had been broken into. Now no one wants to have their things stolen but in this case there is one specific item [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115662</link>
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		<title>&#8220;18 Karat Gold Reggae&#8217;s&#8221; Global Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TCOOO Productions and Bonfire, Inc. have set out to heat up the planet in a good way with the release of &#8220;18 Karat Gold Reggae:  Global Warming.&#8221;
In a world filled with artificial music, Reggae continues to stay true to its roots, and &#8220;18 Karat Gold Reggae&#8217;s&#8221; tracks stay true to Reggae&#8217;s concepts and messages.
Beginning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115642</link>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Opera for May 13, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick and Phyllis walk in just as Jack announces to everyone that Jamie Whitfield likes the changes they made so the new cover for the magazine is a go. Nick asks Jack to talk in Private but Jack says he is a little swamped right now. Nick tells him he can’t make the call this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115658</link>
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		<title>As The World Turns : Soap Update for May 13, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lily brings the kids over to Carly’s. She thanks her for watching the kids and reminds her not to forget to call and ask them if the kids can spend the night there. Carly tells her she was wondering if this is such a good idea. Lily tells her she is the only one she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115646</link>
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		<title>Days of Our Lives : Soap Update for May 13, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole walks in and finds Phillip and Cloe eating dinner together. She is surprised to see them together and she asks if they are a couple now. Nicole tells Phillip that despite what he thinks, she really does care about him. Nicole gets a call from EJ asking her to join him at the gym [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115645</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Sacred Grief: Exploring a New Dimension to Grief by Leslee Tessmann</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Death and grief are not subjects that readers are eager to read about, and as Leslee Tessmann writes in Sacred Grief these are topics most people avoid at all costs. She acknowledges that she was the same way, and for years she saw grieving as something one had to do “…  and by no means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115647</link>
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		<title>Cell Seizure Investigator Stick (CSI Stick) – Another Boon To Identity Thieves!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paraben Corporation, a digital forensic technology provider, has announced a new product, The CSI Stick. This is a thumb drive size device that forensically acquires data from cell phones. Just plug it in and it will suck out all of the data contained in it. You can then analyze it at your leisure. It has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115644</link>
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		<title>Russians Say Nyet To Windows, But Da To Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian based news organization Cnews is reporting that the Russia Post (Postal service) is testing Linux as their software platform for the future. Whether this is a cost control method or a strategic move has yet to be determined.
Some time ago the Russians also announced using Linux exclusively in their schools. That move though was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115636</link>
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		<title>DVD Review: Oban Star Racers Vol.1 &#38; 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oban Star Racers Vol 1 &#38; 2 Even to a fairly knowledgeable anime viewer like me I was surprised to hear that there was a series of anime with the name I associate with Scottish Whisky rather than Jap animation.  While this is aimed at the younger set, therefore, less violent and dark, that does not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115622</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Everyday Cat Excuses by Molly Brandenburg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not actually being a cat, although I am the host for five of the furry little free-loaders, I thought I might turn this review over to them, as subject-matter experts: Percival, the little Russian Blue, Sammy, the big flame-point Siamese, Morgy (tiny and black, of no definable breed) Little Arthur (very large and black, ditto) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: National Treasure 2 - Book of Secrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Treasure – Book of Secrets is one of those slight, improbable, but good-hearted Saturday-matinee-serial adventure movies, kind of like what Indiana Jones started off being before George Lucas got all clunky and serious. An almost A-list cast (Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren – good lord, Helen Mirren? She must have had the rent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming Won’t Harm Great Tits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The list of species that global warming zealots claim will be wiped out by climate change is long: Antarctic penguins; Arctic polar bears; Australia’s koalas; British dragonflies …   
But in what could be a case of Darwinian evolution in action, the BBC reports that “great tits cope well with warming.” Presumably, great tits won’t do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115618</link>
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		<title>Porn Tax Opposed by Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the outset I would admire Republicans protecting sex toys, stripers, and adult movies, but it’s more to do with opposing taxes. California Assembly Democrats are mounting up against the porn industry. Like it or not the industry of sin brings in millions of dollars to California, it has a big employee base, and already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ashlee &#38; Pete Plan For Weekend Wedding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Honey Gillard
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are set to say &#8220;I Do&#8221; this Saturday (May 17), according to recent reports.
The couple, who announced their engagement just last month, were hoping to have a quiet and private ceremony; as most celebs op for these days.
However, their plans seem to have come tumbling down, following Ash&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115615</link>
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		<title>Symantec May Spam Report reveals IRS E-mail Leads To Vampire Game?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Symantec just released it&#8217;s monthly spam report. I always find these reports a valuable tool to see exactly what trends the cybercriminal and less than ethical e-commerce communities have been up to in the past month.
Although most of us view spam as a major nuisance, the fact remains that spam is the preferred vehicle of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115617</link>
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		<title>How Gordon Brown Could Learn From Obama and McCain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seen from the British side of the pond American politics offers hope where here we have the continued worship of the mantra that, as Bismarck said, &#8220;Politics is the art of the possible&#8221;.
I am a fan of the blog of Iain Dale a commentator from the mainstream of Britain’s Conservative party, not because I agree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115614</link>
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		<title>UK Autism and the Elderly:Minister Ivan Lewis urged to launch a debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(London, UK) Autism campaigners have urged Britain&#8217;s Social Care Minister, Ivan Lewis to launch a debate on Autism and the Elderly. Concerns have been raised over the social care of people with autism and Asperger&#8217;s syndrome.
The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown speaking at the King&#8217;s Fund in London said yesterday that England was facing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115613</link>
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		<title>DVD Review: The Great Debaters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading reviews from both gushers and detractors, I found myself falling into the camp of the detractors without having even seeing a trailer. If a film with such high-powered leading men as Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker could fail to garner any Oscar nods I figured the detractors must have something to say. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents  Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!</title>
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End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents  Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
 
The impoverished nation of The Gambia, is currently witnessing untold human rights, social and political crisis. Faced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115611</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Third Strike by Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J. W. Jackson is used to having his wife Zee pushing him to stay out of the deaths and other mysteries that occur on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.  But, this time, when Eduardo Alverez is killed by an explosion in the engine room of the car and passenger ferry Trident, Zee feels differently.  Eduardo may have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Lawrence Meyers about Payday Loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Payday Loans have become a bit of a hotbed of discussion of late. Legislation wending its way through the Ohio Legislature would certainly kill the industry. Lawrence Meyers is deeply involved with the industry from the financing standpoint and agreed to talk to me about the industry and the challenges that they are facing.
Thanks for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115609</link>
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		<title>Coming Soon: Spike TV – A 1000 Ways To Die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spike are not known for their finesse, or deep thinking programing, preferring to go for the shock and instant impact. This two part series will certainly fit their ideal demographic of young males. What could be more ghoulish than a two part series on the subject of bizarre deaths?
Created by Thom Beers, the mastermind behing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115608</link>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for May 12, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David buys Nikki a diamond engagement ring. She says it is an exquisite stone. He asks since she wanted to move up the wedding date what does she think about going off tonight. He wants to go to Mexico but Nikki is a little worried with the date today being a year ago that Nick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As The World Turns : Soap Update for May 12, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noah tells Ameera he has to go out and drop off a book. She offers to start dinner while he is gone. He tells her she doesn’t have to do that. He offers to pick up a pizza on his way home but she says she likes to cook for him. He says ok and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days of Our Lives : Soap Update for May 12, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve meets with EJ at the Pub. EJ tells him he is surprised he wants to meet with him there and be seen. Steve says he has nothing to hide as long as he gets what he came there for. EJ hands Steve some papers and then offers a handshake to put their past behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N. Dakota Military Case Speaks Volumes about Problems Faced By Deployed Fathers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Jury convicts wife of forging checks while her husband was serving in Iraq (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5/2/08):
&#8220;Dana M. Kieser deceived and defrauded her husband when he was at his most vulnerable, serving in Iraq with the Minnesota National Guard, a Ramsey County jury heard Friday.
&#8220;She closed out John Kieser&#8217;s retirement and college-savings accounts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Police Station Contains Asbestos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ According to recent reports a former police station in Matthews Park, Norwalk, has been found to contain asbestos as well as lead. A consultancy report confirms that the building contains toxic materials. Officials now want the disused police station to be demolished and turned into parkland, even though there had been plans to try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115709</link>
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		<title>Asbestos Dangers At The Colorado State Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ According to the director of the Colorado State Fair one of the building at the fair contains asbestos and poses a health risk. Although the building is away from the activities at the fair according to officials, there is still asbestos present, and this is a substance that can cause a range of health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115708</link>
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		<title>Establish Catholic Parishes for the Development of Sacred Art!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose there is a theme emerging here. Over the past few writings, I have called for the development of a Sacred Art Institute within the Catholic Church in the United States. Perhaps the foundation of this educational facility would be best placed here in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which is one of the four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115603</link>
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		<title>Campaigner Concerned Over Asbestos Risks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ An asbestos campaigner in Australia has expressed his concern after it was found that the government has failed to identify asbestos in its own office buildings, thus breaking the law. Robert Vojakovic is the president of the Asbestos Diseases Society, and stated that he was very surprised that this situation had occurred.
It was recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115707</link>
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		<title>CD Review: Various Artists: Our Side of Town</title>
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Our Side of Town
Lucy Kaplansky, Storyhill, Ray Bonneville, The Wailin’ Jennys, Greg Brown, Jimmy LaFave, Lynn Miles, Cliff Eberhardt, John Gorka, The Pines, Eliza Gilkyson, Jorma Kaukonen, Peter Ostroushko, Bill Staines, Robin &#38; Linda Williams and Meg Hutchinson &#8212; that’s a fairly powerhouse collection of contemporary American folk singers and songwriters, and each is represented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family of UK Man Gets Asbestos Compensation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The family of a man from the UK has received a compensation payout after he died as a result of the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma. He was aged seventy five years of age when he passed away in the summer of 2005 from mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that results from exposure to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilary Duff Goes To War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ By Honey Gillard
IN her latest film &#8216;War Inc.&#8217;, Hilary Duff is set to surprise you and show you that there is more to the young star than meets the eye.
In amidst her publicity tour for the political satire - opposite Hollywood&#8217;s John Cusack - the Duffstar has taken time out to talk to magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is Michelle Obama Saying All These Nasty Things About The U.S. – And Us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the 16 years they have been married, Michelle Obama has been Barack Obama&#8217;s closest advisor, second only to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Should Obama be elected, his presidency promises to be another two-fer. In case you have any doubts, columnist Robert Novak reports that Hillary Clinton will not be offered the vice presidency, because Michelle Obama has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tyranny of the Majority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 	  	 Tyranny of the Majority?
Both Alexis de Tocqueville who greatly admired the U.S. and John Stuart Mill warned that democratic majorities were as dangerous as &#8212; perhaps more so than &#8212; repressive authoritarian regimes. At least the latter are subject to rebellions whereas oppressive democratic majorities can do horrendous injustices to minorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Davies on Zimbabwe, Burma, China and All That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, apart from the US Democrat Nomination “race”, Western world media attention is focussed on the Burma Crisis.  Burma (aka Myanmar) is suffering a combination of natural and man made disasters.  And the West is getting hot under the collar about it because the Burmese Military Junta wants to be seen to be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Reports Tax Stimulus Phishing Campaign Underway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FBI Cyber Investigations Division issued a press release that spammers are phishing for people&#8217;s personal details using the tax stimulus program as bait.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns consumers of recently reported spam e-mail purportedly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which is actually an attempt to steal consumer information. The e-mail advises the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bloggernews.net/115595</link>
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		<title>Gordon Brown - Parrot or Phoenix?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The two dominant characters of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s were Harold Wilson (Labour) and Harold MacMillan (Conservative) and each has contributed an aphorism the truths of which political observers forget at their peril. Wilson said that &#8220;A week is a long time in Politics&#8221; and MacMillan, when asked by a journalist for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BURMA: The Clock Is Ticking On Burma’s Cyclone Survivors Lives, NOW Is The Time To Invoke “Responsibility To Protect” Of The UN Charter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BURMA is the small country situated in South East Asia, and it is sandwich between China and India. The country is blessed with rich natural resources including Oil &#38; Gas, However 45 years of mismanagement by the Military Junta Government, the Burma is listed as the one of the most poorest countries on this earth.
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing &#8220;What Happens In Vegas&#8221; Kutcher and Diaz, are no Hanks and Ryan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the heyday of of the romantic comedy. It usually headlined Tom Hanks with Meg Ryan, or Tom Hanks with&#8230; okay let&#8217;s just leave it at that on-screen duo.
What we get with &#8220;What Happens in Vegas&#8221; is Ashton Kutcher (That 70&#8217;s show, Butterfly Effect) paired with Cameron Diaz (Shrek, Charlie&#8217;s Angles) in an absurdly contrived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Facts In Search Of A Moral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My personal life is uneventful &#8212; which is how I like it. So it&#8217;s only occasionally that I find something worth noting on my personal blog. Something I noted there recently, however, sparked a train of thought. I noted how many Presbyterians there are in Korea: about 20% of the South Korean population, if I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law &#038; Order’s Joe Fontana Busted for Packing a Piece!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Farina, TV’s crime series “Law &#38; Order” Joe Fontana has been busted! He was caught attempting to board a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Chicago carrying a loaded .22 caliber, semi-automatic pistol Sunday morning at the Los Angeles International Airport LAX.
Farina worked in Chicago as a police officer for nearly 20 years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis Hamilton hits form</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Hamilton drove a skilful, aggressive and well-judged race at the Turkish Grand Prix to answer the critics who wondered whether the wunderkind who thrilled us for of much of the 2007 F1 season would ever return. Hamilton would have been Drivers’ world champion last year but for an end of season loss of form which, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Surfwise: The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chronicling the odd adventurous life of the Paskowtiz family, led by Dorian &#8220;Doc&#8221; Paskowitz, Doug Pray&#8217;s new documentary, Surfwise, is an hour and a half of engaging, memorable footage. With the glut of documentaries that have been hitting the market lately, due to the recent upsurge in the genre&#8217;s popularity, these endeavors can be hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Horton Employee Fired Over a 16 Cent TimBit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ever so popular CCTV cameras have become really popular in stores to help catch thieves and prevent crime. Even the great Tim Hortons, known for its coffee and doughnuts uses them.
Apparently their cameras caught on camera a thief. Someone in their store committed a crime. It was one of their employees at that and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: Limp Bizkit Rock Im Park 2001</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not a DVD for wimps. I pretty much can handle anything, but at 6am on a Sunday morning even I found this one a little tough to take.
Rap (esque) is not a style I like. I can find very few redeeming features in this so called music genre. If you like it, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains</title>
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Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains
 By Ron Lipsman
 The title of this book intrigued me and attracted me to read it, it is based loosely on the age old quote possibly of Churchill’s regarding being young and liberal and being old and conservative.  Unfortunately, Lipsman takes this quote from late 19th Century early 20th Century Britain and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anger at Shell&#8217;s Golden Handcuffs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News in The Observer, May 11 2008, that Royal Dutch Shell is to pay £3m ($6 billion) to directors simply to stay on the board for three years will be met with strong criticism not only by the investor community but also by one of Shell&#8217;s forgotten set of stakeholders - their Pensioners in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: Big Ideas For A Small Planet – Recycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In nature one organisms waste is another organisms opportunity” Dr. David Suzuki tells us.
How true that is. I work in an environment that very much features this idea. I work with the homeless, maybe the greatest recycling sector on the planet. They scour the city for empty cans and bottles that have a redemption value, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burma: Cyclone “Nargis” Killed At Least 80,000 People Which More Than 40% Are Children, and One and a Half Million Survivors Are Starving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BURMA: The poorest nation on this earth has been hit by the most deadliest Cyclone of 2008 at May 2 unknown and unprepared, and facing the worst disaster the world have never seen before.
And yet the infamous (in-fact the most infamous) Military Junta Government is really quite busy with the REFERENDUM to approved self written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandmom&#8217;s guide to Ubuntu: Hardy Heron ate my mp3&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s time to update the Linux. The latest update is Hardy Heron.
Computer people like cute names, and each Linux/ubuntu update has an animal name to identify it. Hardy Heron, gutsy Gibbon, etc.
The last time  I updated my Ubuntu operating sytem, I downloaded a torrent file of the iso (in English, I downloaded a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Mother’s Day on the Holiday’s 100th Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We at BNN would like to wish all the mother’s out there a very Happy Mother’s Day!
Today is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of celebrating this day. Ann Jarvis started it back in 1908. She got the idea from her mother who had passed away about 3 years earlier.
When Anna was just a child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar – Days Later, Only Death Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar, formally known as Burma was a country in trouble already, the ruling military junta had created an atmosphere of fear and insecurity. Most of the world knows very little about this county. Indeed were it not for a BNN journalist that lives in Myanmar, I would know little.
It is now a week since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapper Rapped On Drugs And Animal Cruelty Charges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rapper Earl Simmons better known as DMX, is looking at increasing his rap sheet. DMX faces seven misdemeanor animal cruelty charges and four felony drug possession charges, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.
Sheriff Joe Arpio is about as much fun as the bubonic plague on a good day. One can only assume that Mr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stolen Information From 40 Financial and Medical Institutions Discovered on Rogue Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once in awhile, I speculate that stolen information is a lot more valuable to the criminal element before it becomes apparent that it&#8217;s been stolen. I&#8217;ve also speculated aloud that there is probably a lot more stolen information out there than we are aware of. The good folks at Finjan are well on their way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pelican Dive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when suddenly you are hit without warning in the face by a diving pelican. I guess it was really hungry to dive for human beings instead of fish.
This is what happened in Tampa Florida to Debbie Shoemaker Thursday while swimming just off Treasure Island. According to Tampa Bay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: The Upright Citizens Brigade: Asssscat!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living in Austin and now Chicago you could say that I&#8217;ve been a little spoiled when it comes to the improv scene. Visiting small theatres and hole in the wall locations I&#8217;ve seen some pretty hilarious antics. From the now-defunct Austin favorite Well Hung Jury to the Chicago staple Second City, there are comedians in this country who&#8217;s improvisational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CD Review: Shine by Estelle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your blessed you might get to see what J. Spencer called a “blue moon things only to be seen once in a life time.” Estelle’s CD “Shine” is a blue moon, eclectic yet rooted in Hip-Hop. You can also hear the strong influenced of soul music “Shine” is clutter breaking the delicate and unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hulk Hogan’s Son Should Consider Professional Wrestling Rather Than Drag Racing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager I remember riding with friends of mine in their cars and drag racing down the quiet city streets. If you had a nice looking car all dressed up you was targeted and looked down on if you refused to race when challenged and no teenager wants to be called chicken.
Apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Bitter Tastes by V.B. Rosendahl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This middle school novel&#8217;s theme is secrets. Just like in real life, everyone in this book has them. Kathy Harmon, the new kid in town because she just moved to Warner, North Carolina, an island town on the outer banks, has them. One of her secrets is what happened to her left hand that causes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killer Landlords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The article below more or less spells out all the underhanded tactics that landlords may use to expel low rent tenants to be replaced with high paying ones:
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*Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity *
*By: Gretchen Morgenson*
*NYTimes.com &#124;* May 9, 2008
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Few of us have not had friends engaged in such battles or have had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: The Jena 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jena, Louisiana is a small town, a town almost no one had ever heard of prior to December 4th 2006 when a white high school kid arrived in the local hospital with a concussion following a beating by his black brethren. The story exploded across, not only the US but the entire world. The six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Faux Elvis by Pat Cook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to read &#8216;Faux Elivs&#8217; by  Pat Cook because the idea that Elivs never died but was still alive ignited my imagination. The book starts with a rookie reporter being given her first opportunity to show what&#8217;s she&#8217;s made of and come up with an interesting human interest story and prove her worth as a journalist. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: Stepping – The Documentary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1619, Slave Traders brought the first African Slaves to America, the slaves brought with them, their own culture, traditions, and heritage. The same culture, traditions, and heritage that influences African American culture to this day.
What is Stepping?
Most people have never even heard the term &#8216;Stepping&#8217;, yet it is the root, the grandfather, maybe the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Jamie Frauenberg - Is it Payday Loan, or Payday Moan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ohio has become the hot bed of contention over Payday Loans. It is a simple concept. You need a few bucks for a few days, and you pay a small fee. Sounds simple? Well it is anything but simple. The Ohio legislature is set to close the industry down. At the center of the controversy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hero joins his Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my emails notified me that a Michael Crescenz, a classmate of mine, will be buried Monday May 12 in Arlington Cemetery. He was killed 40 years ago, in Viet Nam. Ah, it&#8217;s been many years since I thought of Michael, and even then I remember him as a young boy, not as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Widow Of Asbestos Victim Wants Workers To Come Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The widow of an asbestos victim in the UK is appealing for workers who were colleagues of her former husband to come forward to help her in her battle to win compensation. The man from Peterborough died of an asbestos related disease after being exposed to the deadly substance during the course of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for May 9, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nikki is in a meeting with Victoria and Brad. She tells Victoria David is in a meeting right now with a chemist and she thinks she should give him a call. In the meantime David is on the phone with his bookie and finds out the sure bet they talked him into making fell through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As The World Turns : Soap Update for May 9, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emily comes into her office and finds Casey there sleeping in the chair. He tells Emily he didn’t want to go home because he is still mad at his Mom and Dad for how they treated him. Margo comes in to apologize to Casey. She says she is so sorry and wants him to forgive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days of Our Lives : Soap Update for May 9, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel tells Chelsea what happened to him is history which is what it is with her. She doesn’t want to accept this. Chelsea tells him she is well now and she isn’t going to get sick again. She says if she does then he will just have to take care of her. He says no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benazir&#8217;s Murder, Establishment&#8217;s Game Plan, Our Foreign Peers and the Fallout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Sheila Jackson, the woman co-chairing the Pakistan caucus in the US Congress applauds the PPP&#8217;s functioning and complains about the PML-N it is something of a giveaway. Imagine what policy of the party is being applauded when there is broad consensus in Pakistani civil society circles that the party seems unsure on every policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Woman Suing Over Pleural Plaques</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A woman from the UK is taking legal action after developing pleural plaques, a condition that is linked to exposure to airborne asbestos dust and fibers. The fifty five year old woman is suing a number of companies she believes to be responsible for the exposure that has caused pleural plaques. Valerie Pask, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wright Or Rush – Who Helped Hillary More?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The facts: Barack Obama won 38 percent of white Dems in NC, and didn’t do much better amongst whites in IN (35 percent). In exit polls of 1,881 IN Dems and 2,316 NC voters, two out of three Hillary Clinton supporters said they would be dissatisfied if he is their party’s nominee. 
How much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Farmer Refuses To Remove Asbestos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A farmer from the UK has refused to remove asbestos that was dumped on his land because of the costs that would be involved. Asbestos is a potentially deadly substances that can cause a range of serious health problems through exposure, such as respiratory problems, scarring of the lungs, and a form of asbestos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News Assistant Fired For Red Carpet Admission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to TV Newser, a 24-year old Fox News production assistant was fired this morning for an admission she made on the red carpet last night.
During last night&#8217;s Time 100 gala, 24-year old Jennifer Locke was on assignment with Fox News crew in tow to cover the entertainment angle of the event.
When John McCain walked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestos Cancer Drug Rejected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence has rejected a drug designed to help prolong the lives of those suffering from asbestos related cancer, despite appeals to review a previous rejection. The manufacturer of the drug appealed against the previous rejection from NICE, but despite this the drug has been refused on the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD Review: All You Need Is Love – Tony Palmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Award winning film maker Tony Palmer has created quite the opus with this 17 part series about popular music. It comes in a 5 DVD boxed set, and is an absolute must have for any music fan.
Todays music map encompasses a seemingly endless mixture of styles, from a cappella (unaccompanied) to zydeco (A Cajun Louisiana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Violation discovered in Video showing electioneering in Indiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now we know who a Vanderburgh County Indiana poll worker was arguing with in the now semi popular exclusive WTVW FOX7 video showing possible electioneering practices at an Evansville Polling Precinct.
The Evansville Courier and Press is reporting that the Democratic Poll representative was bickering with was Republican Leon &#8220;Big Man&#8221; Collins. Collins is running to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD/CD Review: G. G. Elvis (and the TCP Band)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of Elvis impersonators, in fact there are several Marriage Chapels in Los Vegas that offer Elvis inspired preachers to perform the ceremony. There are are even the Flying Elvii, that perform dare-devil stunts with parachutes while dressed in matching Elvis costumes. Lets face it folks, this is an Elvis world! Pick up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Young and The Restless : Soap Update for May 8, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Victor and Sabrina are having breakfast when he looks at her and tells her how beautiful she is. She says he is spoiling her by telling her that every morning. He tells her that is because she is very beautiful and he tells her how happy he is now. She tells him she wants him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As The World Turns : Soap Update for May 8, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lily is back and Lucinda brings her out to the farm and finds the girls there. Holden is gone and they say he went to a party at Metro. The girls thinks Lily should get all dressed up and go to the party and surprise Holden. They find the perfect dress after saying she needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days of Our Lives : Soap Update for May 8, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John and Marlena look for the disc that is missing when Sami walks in asking what is going on. Marlena tells her the disc is missing. She says it was right there on the desk before. John says well it is gone now. She asks if anything else is missing. John says he doesn’t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owner Of Waste Haulage Firm Fined</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The owner of a waste haulage firm in Pasadena has been fined by authorities over asbestos related violations. The owner of the firm has been given five years probation and fined over fifty five thousand dollars by a federal judge. The violations occurred after the firm was found to have abandoned trailers of asbestos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frontiers of the Human Spirit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Churchill&#8217;s Parrot blog
&#8220;To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.&#8221;
- Sir Winston Churchill
There is at present but one flag upon Earth’s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atherosclerosis: A Silent Killer That You Can Stop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Decker
Many of us work out to target a specific part of our body. We want six-pack abs, big biceps or a firmer backside. We all want to look good on the outside.
Unfortunately, many of us overlook what&#8217;s on the inside, forgetting our body&#8217;s most important muscle: the heart. It&#8217;s an incredible muscle and, unlike the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Debt: Should Old-School Money Philosophies Return?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a story titled “Consumer Credit: Going For Broke,” published by Forbes.com on May 8, 2008, Carl Gutierrez cited figures from the Federal Reserve indicating “that consumer borrowing in the United States rose by $15.3 billion in March, well ahead of Wall Street&#8217;s expected $6.0 billion, and was the biggest rise since November.” In light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camera Catches Obama Poll Worker Violating the Law in Evansville Indiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A formal complaint has not been filed against a poll worker caught on camera Tuesday by a local television station saying &#8220;This is Obama&#8217;s house,&#8221; said the Vanderburgh County clerk.Susan Kirk said the incident will be reviewed by the Election Board at its next meeting in a few weeks.
&#8220;A formal complaint has not been made, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah, A Closet Whacko?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well one has to wonder. This lady of &#8216;Prime time&#8217; who generally is well respected has been dabbling in the well of no return. Tom Cruise is a well known whacko, a Google search on Tom Cruise reveals more hits about Scientology (some religious cult) than anything else.
Oprah in my mind is a pretty nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Council Member Wants Asbestos Exposure Culprits Named</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Following a scandal where leisure complex staff members were exposed to asbestos without any protection, a former council member has asked that senior managers who were in charge at the time should be named. The exposure was at the Woodhouse Close Leisure Complex and staff members were allowed to work with deadly asbestos for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Halen Gets More Fun The More They Play Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you miss them, they&#8217;re back!
Back in college my roommate Dustin and I made a pledge that if Van Halen ever toured with David Lee Roth again we would be at the show no matter what. That promise was fulfilled in October of last year when we saw the mighty VH at Cleveland&#8217;s Quicken Loans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smile – You Are On Camera (Well Maybe)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was over a year ago that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced  his plan to install CCTV cameras in high crime areas of the city. He claimed that 50 cameras would be operable within a week, and a total of 200 online by the end of the year.
Well the scheme has not worked [...]]]></description>
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